439 Lafayette Street #3

The full-floor loft runs roughly 3,300 square feet behind a landmarked cast-iron facade in the NoHo Historic District, a block off Astor Place and the surviving columns of Colonnade Row. The building spent the better part of a century in trade — a factory loft until the 1980s, when it was converted to a boutique co-op of just a handful of full-floor residences. Three bedrooms, three baths, ten rooms, with the barrel-vaulted ceilings and oversized windows the conversion kept intact.

Ten rooms is a lot of quiet on one floor.